How do you send AI to the afterlife?

with a bolter!

>>51288658
AI don't have a afterlife, albeit that they are truly immortal, given that their data isn't expunged or destroyed. Their bodies can only be shut down, while their minds live on.

>>51288658
If the robot has a soul, but in relative game terms.

If sentient robots have a soul in your setting, then there's an afterlife for them. If sentient robots don't possess a soul in your setting then there's no afterlife for them.

So assuming that your campaign will have Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, etc. Then after death, you'd only go to an afterlife if you had a soul.

What's robot heaven like?
Or robot hell?

I have this idea, for a high magic science fantasy setting. In it, machines are powered by artificial souls, created in order to tap into the seemingly infinite source of magical energy that permeates the universe. The antagonist is this newly birthed robotic god of death that formed from deceased machine souls that once powered now obsolete technology and its army of vile techromancers, twisted animatronic abominations, and screaming electric souls of the silicon damned.

>>51288832
Cigars are evil, you won't miss 'em

>>51288740
So Tolkien elves basically?

>>51288658
Ask GLaDOS, though that might be restricted to Androids.

>>51288658
If AI can be said to have a soul in setting, then presumably it will also have an afterlife and goes there when its "life" ends - its "hardware" is destroyed or damaged to the point when it can't support its consciousness.

That creates a question what happens if it's repaired - if it is possible. Will the "restored" AI be the same entity, or will it be a copy? But that is issue similar to what sci-fi is already dealing with when there's cloning and consciousness backups involved.

>>51288658
I had an idea a few years ago for a very special metaphysical Engine Heart campaign where the humans all get Rapture'd (yes, ALL the humans), leaving the bots in chaos for a while.

Then something starts communicating with them and the PCs have to go on an adventure to discover how to gain souls so they can rejoin their owners in the afterlife.

>>51291846
We'll find ways to simulate that smell!

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If I may, sirs, I'd like to tell you all the wonders of Silicon Heaven

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>>51288832
it's full of toasters

>>51288740
But if there's no afterlife for machines then where do all the little calculators go?

>>51293894
What a sorry fella

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>>51288832
Good robots get to continue to be with mankind, there is no divide.

There is no robot afterlife: if souls can be made artificially of materials, then they can be destroyed as materials just the same so either they have no soul or their souls are doomed, but telling them that is too sad.

Whatever you want. Personally, I'd go with 'soul is gained via sentience'.

>>51288658
Cloud 9 storage

>>51288658
Why wouldn't they get sent to the same place?

>>51288658
The afterlife for AI should be nothing but switching to another, more specified server.

>>51288658

If it had a soul and was made by humans, threat it as a human. Though, it wouldn't really be recognizable as a machine afterward.

>>51299809
Ha!

>>51288658
>IA
>Afterlife
Doesn't work like that.

>>51288832

It's like the jewish afterlife. Good or bad, you go to the same pit.